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    Michael Jackson: Exceptional Artist or Genius?: Points to consider.
    Michael Jackson: Exceptional Artist or Genius?: Points to consider.
    Michael Jackson: Exceptional Artist or Genius?: Points to consider.
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    Michael Jackson: Exceptional Artist or Genius?: Points to consider.

    By Onésimo Colavidas and Franck Vidiella

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    Analyzing the career of Michael Jackson, Franck Vidiella questions the sensitive nature of the term "Genius." Based upon a study that confirms that the great geniuses are, nearly in their totality, creative, brilliant, obstinate and multifaceted, each one of the issues are analyzed by studying the career of the Star of Pop, in such a way that they offer elements to answer the following question: Was Michael Jackson an exceptional artist or an absolute Genius? The answer, as you will be able to see, allows a passionate debate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFV Éditions
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9782366680867
    Michael Jackson: Exceptional Artist or Genius?: Points to consider.

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      Preface

      In this essay, the fragile definition of Genius is being questioned. Carrying on from a study that demonstrates that the great genius are mostly creative, brilliant, obstinate and multifaceted, each one of these issues is analyzed from the perspective of the King of Pop, in such a way that it provides response elements to the following question: Was Michael Jackson an exceptional artist or an absolute genius?

      Introduction

      To define a genius is not easy, yet there are a number of definitions. One which we could remember with regard to Michael Jackson refers to the natural aptitude that makes a person capable of creating extraordinary new things. The term genius would therefore be a gift, a natural gift that could not accept the slightest attempt of finding an explanation and would therefore arise from the indescribable. The famed ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn once quoted: genius is a kind of magic and the secret of magic is that you cannot explain it. Genius cannot be theorized.

      The Genius has a social dimension

      From a different perspective, authors such as Claude Thélot¹ underline that the only reference to gift to define genius would be limited. This sociologist, choosing a list made up of 350 great Western geniuses, covering the Renaissance up to the year 2000, manages to produce a quantitative sociology of the Western genius², arriving at the conclusion that historically the attributes of genius have not been distributed in a random way. The presence of genius is therefore not just a random coincidence since some of the constant values can be quantified using statistics. These stats show that only 2 per cent of geniuses are women, 50 per cent come from an accommodated social environment within urban areas and rarely from villages. If the gift alone should authorise a universal definition of genius, essentially being innate, then this should allow the manifestation of genius everywhere, and therefore not being possible to measure it statistically. It should allow, for example, for women to be better represented in the early corpus of the author, or, allow the sons of manual laborers to be more frequently endowed with the attributes of a genius. Based upon these observations, the genius cannot be merely defined by the term gift. On the other hand, if genius and gift can be quantifiable, then Thélot also defines genius in a similar manner, because further afield from the subject of gift, the values he uses to define genius are also subject to social and cultural variations. If it happens that certain geniuses are self made, in most

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